Because I’d rather pay FedEx 10x to deliver a letter that the Post Office will deliver for 52c. Post Office problems exist because competing industries lobby to eviscerate it. Privatization doesn’t improve efficiency unless the 30% profit margin that they extract is used to lobby against public services that our government is supposed to provide. This is the basis for financial capitalism…convince the people that everything related to government is “bad,” and that shifting profit into the hands of corporations is somehow better for the people. Because no corporation ever exploited their social responsibility.
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You’re a socialist. That’s ok. Own it.
Chill, my dude. Politics is a spectrum, and most of what goes on in the halls of power is bullshit anyway. Some of the things I hear hardcore ancaps say is just as ridiculous as what you’ll find on the far left. It’s like when your video game spaceship flies off one side of the screen and reappears on the other side. 
Thanks, Daniel, but that’s not required. I know exactly what I’m saying.
You must have forgotten that this isn’t twitter.
I’d much rather discuss ideas than have them packaged for me as permissible or disallowed ideologies. To dismiss any idea as “socialist” because you’re told that it should be packaged thus, or “capitalist” because you are told that it must be packaged thus, not only removes you from any meaningful discourse, but enslaves you to the rhetorical tricks of the powerful classes that benefit from your complicity.
